Is The Abyss actually good?

The Abyss sits in the 78.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.5% of them.

How does The Abyss compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Abyss lands in the 76.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Abyss's score based on?

440 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Abyss's score.

1989

global pct

78.5

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

The Abyss

Name: The Abyss
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1989

Scored from 440 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

78.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

76.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

440 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A civilian deep-sea oil drilling crew is recruited by the Navy to search for a lost nuclear submarine on the edge of an undersea trench. As they descend, the team's estranged foreman and his engineer ex-wife clash with an unstable SEAL officer while encountering something not of this world in the depths below.

Released in 1989, The Abyss is an adventure, drama and mystery film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 28 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 440 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 450 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.